so the carol karen, one of the senior authors of this report by cambridge university. so thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us. thank you for having us. thank the best toll from the major flooding in malaysia has risen to at least 37. the floods triggered by days of heavy rain have also displaced nearly 70000 people. as far as floor reports now from carrack, which is a small town and bang state. many towns remain cut off the water levels in this river in pa, hung state malaysia may have gone down, but the destruction caused by the floods is evident. water overflowed onto highways, making some roads impossible for days per hung is the worst hit state. with around 40000 people displaced, some towns are still cut off, accessible only by boat. but in some areas, flood waters have begun to receive, and people are starting to return to their homes to count the cost of the damage to rebuild their lives. the element, if you will, of course i am disappointed with the government hasn't heard this. i'm relying on friends. what else can i do? water rose quickly and

dr neil davies from cambridge university told us more about the discovery. discovered by chance.ide and realised there was a big fossil there. so i went back the following morning and, yeah, we realise that it was a gigantic millipede in the middle of this rock. because we knew there were these large millipedes around at the time because they've left trackways and there are small fragments of these fossils. it's just very rare to find a whole one. so we didn't really believe what it was to begin with. so we took photos and sent them around various experts, and then realise that, yes, it is indeed to this giant millipede. so we got permission and then went back and collected it later on in the year. fascinating stuff. let's return to that breaking news from the uk government. 90,629 new covid—19 cases on tuesday. with172 deaths being reported. i'm back in a moment with more of the day's deadlines —— headlines. there is so much clout to add to the day. there have been some breaks in the north. a few in the west. that process will continue for the rest of the day. wherever you are,

professor from the university of cambridge, thank - the university of cambridge, thank you very muchurneys at home and abroad are surging today — but rail travellers face disruption caused by a combination of omicron and industrial action, and heavy traffic is predicted on the roads. meanwhile, people heading abroad are having to deal with a tangle of travel restrictions. simon calder, travel editor of the independent, outlined how the railstrikes will impact travellers in the uk. cross country trains run a really important network from scotland and the north—east of england through the midlands to south west england. on top of that they have a service from manchester to the south coast of bournemouth and they run across from birmingham and leicester across to stansted airport. those trains are not running. one crucial aspect is that rutland is now cut off from the rest of the uk by rail. it will be at least until monday. quite serious if you are trying to get long distance. a skeleton service operating between edinburgh and plymouth and between manchester and reading and otherwise y

a professor from cambridge adversity made -- from cambridge university mid the discovery. >> we werethe beach looking around the rocks on a geological holiday and we saw a boulder had fallen from the cliff face, split down the middle, looked inside and realized it was a big fossil. went down the following morning and we realized it was a gigantic millipedes in the middle of this rock. there were large millipedes around the time because they left tracks on small fragments of these fossils. we have yet to find old ones. we really didn't believe what it was, so we took photos and sent them to various experts and realized it is indeed this giant millipedes. we went back and collected at later in the year. ♪ ros: hello. i'm ros atkins in the bbc news room. this is "outside source," our lead story, president biden announces a push to increase vaccinations in the u.s. to combat the omicron variant. in the u.k., scotland canceled a parade in edinburgh, butoris johnson is saying that will not be further restrictions before christmas in england. overall, the u.k. reported over 90,000 cases tue

analysis of the discovery by cambridge university suggests the creature was as long as a car and weighedabout 50 kilos. the species crawled across the earth more than 300 million years ago. although millipedes typically feed on decaying plant matter, scientists say it might have been carnivorous hello again. for many of us it's going to be another fairly cloudy day but having said that, there will be a bit more sunshine around than yesterday. especially from the west. we also have a week when a front across the far north of scotland producing patchy rain, breezy in the south—west of england and channel islands with a maximum of two in aberdeen and nine in plymouth. through this evening and overnight there will be clear skies and under those clear skies we will see patchy mist and fog form and we are looking at a widespread fast. but figure cloud coming from a heavier band of rain and across the west it won't be as cold for you. these temperatures represent towns and cities but in rural areas could be —3 or “4. it does mean a sunny start tomorrow with the fog lifting but cloud will start

this is andrew bailey, he's the governor of the bank of england and bailey was attending the cambridge university students union responding to questions. during this, ostrom, he called el salvador, his bitcoin adoption. concerning as unsuspected consumers could be hugely affected by its volatility. he said, quote, it concerns me that a country would choose it as, as national currency. what would worry me? most of all is do the citizens of our salvador, understand the nature and volatility of the currency. they have what the citizens of el salvador understand is the nature and volatility of central bankers who inflate and print their via money into extinction. and as a way to transfer wealth and property from the masses to central bankers fest with the citizens of el salvador, understand that's what citizens all over central america understand. remember the united states is overthrown. 15 countries in central america and they used dollars, their primary weapon is a weapon of mass destruction, the u. s. dollar and the english pound. this fella, bailey, over the bank of england, is concerned that he

right. joining us, chris smith, consulting virology to cambridge university. the presenter of the naked scientists podcasts on scott from cambridge and chris lee, wanna get into this whole issue of ami kron basically. now i'm going to show you as a graph here, and i sent it to you a little bit earlier. this is come from next strain dot org. just for some perspective, all of this, all of these blue dots. if we think of this, the whole pandemic that is delta on its own, this red blob here, red collection of dots. that is ami kron. it is chris, very small of the stage. now i know it can grow just as every other variant did, but does the panic? does the even the media coverage? i'll put us in there as well. does it warrants the situation? will s one the clock back to last month to the beginning of november because that is when south africa 1st detected this barren. and at the time they had very low levels of current vars cases in their country as in a few 100 per day. oh, chiefly delta by the end of the month, but had grown to 15 maybe $20000.00 cases per day. chie

and there are several strategies being looked at around the world, including at cambridge university by sir david chang and others. and that includes a nuclear in low level marine clouds. that can be more reflective. it includes the work of dr. leslie fields to test silicon beads. basically made of sand, they can answer the reflectivity c i so you can grow stronger multi, your ice is, is the real danger. we're down to just a few percent of the strong multi or eyes. and when the psychologic wins and wave action of the arctic get even stronger, that ice will break up and melts even fast. you, you mentioned finals, you mentioned the word repair that this it could, could the sea ice parapet or glass is even once glasser is gone? surely it's gone forever. well the, when we lose the, the greenland ice sheet that is gone forever. but the arctic sea ice can be repaired, at least. that's what scientists, thanks so far. now we may have to go to the extreme measure of solar radiation management, where we would actually shoot reflective particles in the space to reflect more sunlight. now we wou

there's no way i would have got a job on the financial times if i hadn't gone to cambridge universitybut, at the same time, i think i lost touch with my ethnic background and being punjabi in that i didn't study a single brown author until my final terms at university. and i think that was a failure of education, and i don't think my experience is untypical, in that a lot of our education, our curriculums are whitewashed and we don't study the role that empire had in so many things. and to take things that are very relevant to your own family's history, did you learn in your history lessons about, i don't know, the indian rebellion of 1857? or did you learn about the amritsar massacre of 1919? no! these are hugely important moments in the evolution of a sort of independence mind—set in india. even when we were taught things, we weren't taught about the imperial context. so, for example, world war i, world war ii, we all learn about that at school. no—one told a kind of ethnically diverse student base that six million soldiers from the colonies also fought for britain in both world war

analysis by cambridge university suggests the creature was more than eight feet long, and may have hunted other animals forfood around 326 million years ago. then, the north—east of england would have had a tropical climate. it was discovered by chance. we were out on the beach just looking around at the rocks, just a bit of a geological holiday, and as the sun was setting, we saw there was a boulder that had fallen from the cliff face, split down the middle. and then just looked inside and realised there was a big fossil there. so went back the following morning and, yeah, we realised it was a gigantic millipede in the middle of this rock. time for a look at the weather. here's matt taylor. farfrom a tropical far from a tropical climate today, really wintry. it is the winter solstice, the days start to draw out a bit more fun today. but we saw temperatures well below freezing across the highlands and they will not write a great deal more through the rest of today. some sunshine across the highlands at the moment, some through wales and increasingly to southern parts of england and the ch

analysis of the discovery by cambridge university suggests the creature was as long as a car and weighed300 million years ago. although millipedes typically feed on decaying plant matter, scientists say it might have been carnivorous. thejury in the trail of ghislaine maxwell have begun their deliberations in herfederal sex trafficking trial. in the closing arguments, prosecutors called her a sophisticated predator. ms maxwell has denied grooming underage girls for abuse by the late paedophile jeffrey epstein between 1994 and 2004. barbara plett usher is following developments. jurors have to decide which version of events to believe. the prosecution has does —— argued that ghislaine maxwell was crucial to jeffrey epstein's operation. she made the teenagers feel comfortable, she was partial, smiling, a coverfor mr epstein. she knew exactly what she was doing after she sent them into a massage room with them. the defence sets is that no she didn't know because mr epstein kept secret from her and she is being punished for his crimes, a scapegoat. the other issue is the credibility of the f

cambridge university has done studies, leicester university. says the mainstream media's l reportingontributing to growing hostility and hate crimesl toward muslims. so, you know, the media has a great role to play, - and we find that often it falls far short of the kind - of journalistic standards - that it actually uses when it comes to other communities. so, i think we got a sense from that of how you define what's a negative story, what's a positive story. where does more neutral coverage sit? for example, you know, if there's a muslim contributor, but they're not speaking about islam, is that positive or negative, or do you discount it? is that not something that comes into this report? i mean, we have 50 key words| which, in one form or another, kind of give us all- the articles or television clips that contain one i or more of those words. now, if somebody is on and they're not identified - as being muslim, or the word i islam or any other kind of word isn't identified, that wouldn't appear on our radar. - but if it does, even if it's a passing mention, then| we do analyse it.

analysis by cambridge university suggests the creature was more than eight feet long, and may have huntede had a tropical climate. it was discovered by chance. we were out on the beach just looking around at the rocks, just a bit of a geological holiday, and as the sun was setting, we saw there was a boulder that had fallen from the cliff face, split down the middle. and then just looked inside and realised there was a big fossil there. so went back the following morning and, yeah, we realised it was a gigantic millipede in the middle of this rock.

dr neil davies from cambridge university told us more about the discovery. discovered by chance.use we knew there were these large millipedes around at the time because they've left trackways and there are small fragments of these fossils. it's just very rare to find a whole one. so we didn't really believe what it was to begin with. so we took photos and sent them around various experts, and then realise that, yes, it is indeed to this giant millipede. so we got permission and then went back and collected it later on in the year. now it's time for a look at the weather with chris fawkes. yes, it has been a lovely still end to the day across east sussex for the setting sun on the horizon and with this weather watch picture sent us the last half hour or so, you can see a sun pillow. the sprayed area just going to the sky above the sun there. the satellite picture has a lump of cloud that is off to the west of this is an area of low pressure that is going to be coming over the next 24 hours and bring a change to our weather patterns. for the time being, we have a lot of cloud acros

professor clare bryant is professor of innate immunity at cambridge university and joins me now.balanced assessment you are giving in what was then very limited information. cautioning people to be prepared but not to panic because at that stage you are still talking about in the mild infection in africa. how does it look now, two weeks on?— africa. how does it look now, two weeks on? ., , ., , weeks on? not good news, really. it is ve , weeks on? not good news, really. it is very. very — weeks on? not good news, really. it is very, very infectious, _ weeks on? not good news, really. it is very, very infectious, as _ weeks on? not good news, really. it is very, very infectious, as we - is very, very infectious, as we know. that is causing a lot of problems because the numbers of cases are shooting up very, very fast and this really is the challenge at the moment. we don't have enough information to be sure about how much disease this variant is going to cause and we have to be cautious until we get that information. we know that there is some vaccine invasion as we were concerned

analysis of the discovery by cambridge university suggests the creature was as long as a car and weighedcientists say it might have been carnivorous. now it�*s time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. i�*m not sure it�*s all that festive! good morning, everyone. it�*s not all that vested at the moment, we have planned this morning, breaking from the west and more sunshine around today than yesterday, breezy across the south—west of england and the channel islands, this week weather front producing patchy and light rain across the far north of scotland. maximum temperature is 2 degrees in aberdeen today, eight possibly 9 degrees in plymouth. through this evening and overnight under clear skies we see patchy mist and fog forming especially around the midlands, home counties, the south—east but under clear skies it will be cold, looking at a widespread frost. the exception across northern ireland, because we had thick cloud coming in ahead of some rain. patchy fog lifting, lots of sunshine to start the day, the cloud building ahead of this band of rain coming in. later, it engage

a new study by researchers from cambridge university shows the variant may have picked up material fromcauses the common cold that makes omicron variant more transmissible but more mild conditions. five county from here in the bay area, alameda county, travelled for a wedding and were infected with omicron. this case is not related to that wedding. so far in all those cases everybody was vaccinated and said to have mild symptoms. tomorrow a new rule will be in place for international travelers coming to the u.s. and it's all because of the omicron variant, adding new complications to an already-busy holiday season as many people get ready to see their loved ones. nbc's anne thompson, has the story. >> news on the omicron variant attempting to upset many long-awaited holiday plans. >> i'm nervous. >> others confident vaccines, masking and social distancing will keep them safe. >> we cannot live in fear and we have to do what we have to do. >> some of that is changing. starting december 6th, all international travelers coming to the u.s. including american citizens will have to show a neg

he is not one of the puritans who went to either oxford or cambridge university but he was always are interested in what we would call self-education. he read extensively. we can tell from the inventory at his death he had a very large collection of books and then of course as robert mentions, there are frequent mentions in his writings that indicate of familiarity with a great number of works. i would suggest two things, that if robert is interested in this he might do. david louver has written a recent book on classical influences or evidences in the records of plymouth and he actually talks about the passage specifically as well as some other indications of the knowledge among the pilgrims of classical literature. he also, another book would be jeremy banks who is one of our coeditors recently published and inventory of all the private libraries of people who died in plymouth in the 17th century and left evidence of book ownership in their libraries. a large number of volumes is impressive. in fact, i do want to go on too long here but one of the things that always struck me is tha

this project is key worker housing for the university of cambridge�*s staff and researchers. , retail, community centre, school, hotel. the university set out to establish and develop an extension to the city of cambridge, which gives an opportunity for all staff and students to live and come andjoin and be part of the success story of the university of cambridge. the development is one of the largest storm water recycling schemes within the world. all the water on the roof is stored and collected and then carried through into the attenuation point within the communal landscape court. to achieve the high demands for the daylight meant that the buildings become quite far apart and the building form quite simple. one of the challenges really for us was to create a kind of intimacy and sense of place. eddington overall is a fabulous concept. i'm always bowled over by the fact the university has undertaken this project. the units are well—spaced, well—thought—out, love the design, love the feel of it. it is actually quite a bit of a luxury to come here every day. when i visited a

i'm happy to bring in the president of queens college at cambridge university and chief economic advisereat to see you. >> thank you, poppy. >> for starters, when you look at this market and it keeps going up and up and up, it really is just not representative of the challenges facing the broader economy. what does it tell us heading into the new year? >> so, the market does two things, and these are things that people have been repeating for a long time. the economy is not the market, and don't fight the federal reserve. what we are seeing in the marketplace yet again is the influence of the federal reserve putting in so much liquidity that it results in what's called the everything rally. everything goes up. >> yeah. you have some major concerns about inflation, as have i for a long time. and, you know, i wonder if you believe that omicron, which is threatening economic recovery, also, though, may have the effect of tampering yes, we're the lockdowns we saw before, but i'm not going out to eat, for example. >> i've been worried about inflation for a good six months and have been saying

this project is key for the housing for the university of cambridge�*s staff and researchers. we have accommodation housing, retail, community centre, school, hotel. the university was set out to develop as an extension of the city of cambridge and give an opportunity for all staff and students to come and live and be part of the success story of the university of cambridge. the development is one of the largest water recycling schemes in the world. all water on the roof is stored and collected and then carried through into the continuation point within the communal landscape court. to achieve the high demands for the daylight means that buildings become quite far apart. the building form is quite simple, one of the challenges was really, for us, to create an intimacy and sense of place. eddington overall is a fabulous concept and i am always bowled over by the fact the university's undertaking this project. the units are well spaced, well thought out, love the design, love the feel of it, it's actually quite a bit of a luxury to come here every day. when i visited a few months

dr neil davies from cambridge university made the discovery. it was discovered by chance.there were these large millipedes around at the time, because they've left trackways and there are small fragments of these fossils. it's just very rare to find a whole one. so we didn't really believe what it was to begin with. so we took photos and sent them around various experts, and then realise that, yes, it is indeed to this giant millipede. so we got permission and went back and collected it later on in the year. this is outside source, live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is... president biden has announced a major push to increase vaccination in the united states to combat the omicron variant. let's get the latest on coronavirus in the uk. scotland has cancelled the official hogmanany parade in edinburgh, but borisjohnson says there won't be any new restrictions coming into effect before christmas, in england. the uk reported 90,629 cases on tuesday. the prime minister tweeted... here's political correspondent jonathan blake on why restrictions aren't being imposed in e

analysis of the discovery by cambridge university suggests the creature was as long as a car and weighedlook at some of those incredible pictures. the millipede was found by a scientist who wasn't actually out looking for it, just happened to stumble across it on a winter walk. and i think he was as surprised as anyone but what i find it to stumble upon! that millipede, just shows you, you've got to keep your eyes open. you're watching bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. after today, the weather is turning more unsettled as we head towards the christmas period, but today there is still a fair bit of cloud around, it is breaking from the west so more of us will see sunshine than we did yesterday. we still have a weak weather front across the north of scotland producing some patchy rain, and still breezy across south—west england and also the channel islands. our maximum temperatures, 2 to about 9 degrees. now, through this evening and overnight we will continue to see the cloud break, and under clear skies we will see a return to some low cl

a team at cambridge university suggest the creature was more than two—and—a—half metres long. england, would have had a tropical climate. think of that if you are out in northumberland this evening. i bet it's not very tropical there this evening. plenty more to come in the programme, stay with us. good evening. the day has finished with a few more cloud breaks around than we had to start with, and as those cloud breaks become a bit more abundant tonight, just watch how the blue colours appear quite widely on the chart, an indication of a widespread frost developing across parts of wales, england and scotland. not quite so towards northern ireland, where the cloud will be thickening up later in the night. temperatures will lift, but we could see temperatures as low as —3 to —7 celsius a bit more widely as we go into the morning. still under the influence of the ridge of high pressure, but the breeze is picking up, it's helping to break up the cloud, and further west, we start to see the influence of the atlantic start to show its hand. and it will do more through the coming fe

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sheena i think i will talk about the penultimate project which was a short book published by cambridge university press earlier this year and with like sheena it is through the elements of east asian society and politics series. so that's now available. but in line with our project theme of understanding the black box of north korea, the book was a way for me to organize my own thinking about the prospects for domestic change in north korea and more specifically the potential development of civil society. now, the early stages of the book i was much more focused on the civil society aspect that it was clear that there isn't much in a way of an actual civil society, going to be a pretty short book. i shifted direction of that so working that we are looking more at how markets can shape relations. back to this question of whether there's a change or not in north korea, on one hand the seem to be little change and we see the kim family dynasty is outlived almost every current dictatorship in its 70+ years of continuous roll. north korea is still one of the poorest countries in the world and it peren

south korea, big to t o is political scientists affiliated with the cold war project at the university of cambridge here. and ross griffin is a middle east editor of the international journal of the history of sports and from portland in the state of oregon. we have jewels book of chair of the pacific universities politics and government department is also former professional and olympics and will welcome to you all of it to you. i'd like to start with you 1st and so and if i may at this point, cause is it driven by a real objection to chinese human rights abuses, or is it all about countries, individual spots with china? well, i think there has always been genuine concerns about human rights with, with china in particular. and this is, has been if you'd like the constant issue inside on us relations in swell since $572.00 when the us and china normalized relations. but having said that, this human rights concern did not prevent the americans from establishing good relations with china. you know, in june to out the cold. oh, in the latter part of the cold war, and right up to that on a truck and mi

alrighty bally is a frontline, a chest dot and clinical epidemiologist at university of cambridge in england. he says the outlook for this new year is looking better than last in terms of the individual level of protection that people have. this is much, much better than it was last year. and the content has been with chrome. is that because it's been very quickly, if enough people are infected at the same time, even a small proportion of those kids end up in causing a number, but listen in a chest so gently would struggle with it still to at least know exactly how that's going to pan out there currently it's, it's not as bad as love to even if you look at the number of admissions that we've got at the moment. at last, the last, the title president of the hospital bent, occupied the author less than last year. and one of the most significant differences is the impact on intensive care units or admission. so this time last year or the 10th of k in as we're filling up with k patients, that really hasn't happened so far in this way. in fact, that stable, if not, falling flatly set up st

and clinical epidemiologists at the university of cambridge that dr . ellie, welcome to the program. so we have another new to new year for most people around the world. do you agree with the british prime minister that the outlook looks brighter than this time last year? it afternoon? yes, i mean the big difference compared to this time last course is last year and almost nobody in the world in the you have been selected. whereas this time over 9 t, 5 percent of those are high risk, have been to the okay. and the vast majority cases in terms of the individual level of protection that people have. this is much, much better than it was last year. the content has been with chrome, is that because it's been very quickly if enough people are infected at the same time, even a small proportion of those kids end up in causing a number of hostile missions, which in a chest saw generally would struggle to keep it still tim snell. exactly how that's going to pan out. but so the only indication that the severity of disease that we're seeing and hospitals not just in canada and other countries b

earlier i spoke to the university of cambridge�*s professor ravi gupta about the latest covid data.told me what he believes is behind the high infections. i think that of course the number of infections is remarkably high and it is probably due to the virus being highly infectious and replicating really well in the upper airways and the nose and that is why it is spreading so quickly. we think it has taken a potential hit in other parts of its profile and it may be less prone to infecting the lower airways and causing severe lung disease so although the numbers of cases is incredibly high it may not translate into more severe disease, as we were discussing earlier, because of this change in biology, but also potentially because of more underlying immunity. that has to be taken into account when we think what we are going to do about it because of course we are hoping for a relatively let's say positive profile in terms of the numbers of deaths attributable to omicron and at the moment the signs are positive. on the other hand disruption to services and pressure on hospitals and medi